Thursday, June 12, 2014

Cartoon of the Day: The Gay Pashtun Nationalist Nexus

The Cartoon of the Day: Nemat Sadat, Dr. Ashraf Ghani and Mullah Mohammed Omar are linchpins in the gay Pashtun nationalist nexus. I have much in common with Dr. Ghani but we are both polar opposites to Mullah Omar. Dr. Ghani and I are friendly teddy bears, alums of Columbia University in the City of New York and spent our time in the Ivory Tower contemplating the truth and teaching students about nation building and international affairs. On the other hand, the Taliban leader grew up in a Madrassa and uses Islam to leverage his power and terrorize the masses. Silly Afghans and your never-ending conspiracies and frivolous gossip! AsSocrates said, “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

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About Me

My pioneering coming out in August 2013 as the first gay person originally from Afghanistan awakened an LGBTI movement in my homeland and crushed the taboos on homosexuality. My story has been featured in Guardian Magazine, El Mundo, Voice of America Dari, Out.com among others. I've appeared on segments of Huff Post Live and have worked at ABC News, CNN, and the UN. I'm an alum of CSU Fullerton, UC Irvine, Harvard, Columbia and Oxford. I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979 and moved to southern California in 1984. I live in Washington, D.C. and working on my first novel.